Enjoy our Chinese New Year celebrations at Chinese Arts Centre providing festive activities from 12pm including:
Chinese Tea Tasting
Chinese Calligraphy and Origami with Mary Tang
Live Chinese Music
]]> http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/http:/www.chinese-arts-centre.org/general-news/chinese-new-year-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/http:/www.chinese-arts-centre.org/general-news/yellow-academy-2010/ http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/http:/www.chinese-arts-centre.org/general-news/yellow-academy-2010/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:50:21 +0000 info http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/?p=2163 Yellow Academy 2010 is an exciting new initiative between Yellow Earth (UK’s leading East Asian* theatre company) and ALRA (The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts). Outreaching to Belfast, Birmingham, London, and Manchester through February to May 2010, we will be bringing together a group of enthusiastic and curious young people down to London for a free week of acting training in Summer 2010.

Activities are free and open to all British East Asians aged 16-30 curious or interested in actor training. No previous experience necessary.

Round One – Taster Talks
In early 2010, Yellow Earth’s co-Artistic Director Jonathan Man and ALRA’s co-Director Clive Duncan will visit Belfast, Birmingham, London, and Manchester, to reveal secrets on how to get into the industry and provide a taste of what it really takes to be a successful professional actor. They will also introduce the work of both organisations.

Round Two – Audition Workshops
In Spring 2010, we return to Round One cities and offer a practical ‘taste’ of actor training through interactive workshops. Selected participants will be invited to the Acting Summer Camp.

Round Three – Acting Summer Camp
In Summer 2010, the successful participants will go to London to take part in an intensive week’s training. Free tuition and accommodation will be provided. Participants will work in classes with professional practitioners from Yellow Earth and ALRA, covering Movement, Voice, Acting and Mask.

Manchester
Taster Talk
Date & Time: Sat 20 Feb 2010, at 2pm
Venue: Chinese Arts Centre
Market Buildings, Thomas Street, Manchester M4 1EU

Audition Workshop
Date & Time: Sat 17 April 2010, 2-6pm
Venue: Contact Theatre
Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6JA
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To sign up please send an email to info@alra.co.uk stating your name, age and contact details.
To find out more, visit www.yellowearth.org / www.alra.co.uk or phone 0208 870 6475.
You can find us on Facebook at ‘Yellow Academy’.

The Chinese Film Forum UK is a network based in Manchester that exists for the research and promotion of transnational Chinese film. The network includes Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Salford, The University of Manchester, Confucius Institute, Chinese Arts Centre and Cornerhouse.

Schedule:
1:30 – 2:00 Registration
2:00 – 2:30 Welcome and introduction

2:30 – 4:00 Panel papers
Chair: Felicia Chan, University of Manchester

Visible Secrets: a model for collaboration?
Andy Willis, University of Salford

The Japanese Connection to Taiwan Cinema
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley, University of Leeds

The Melbourne Controversy
Robert Hamilton, Manchester Metropolitan University

Six Chinese Cinemas in Search of a Historiography
Song Hwee Lim, University of Exeter

4:00 – 4:30 Q&A roundtable

Moderator: Felicity Colman, Manchester Metropolitan University

4:30 – 5:30 Dim sum reception
Sponsored by Sweet Mandarin

Attendance to the symposium is free but please note that places are limited.
RSVP r.hamilton@mmu.ac.uk for a reservation.

Symposium participants will also receive a complimentary ticket to the Chinese Film Forum UK launch screening at Cornerhouse. Tickets will be allocated on the day of the symposium.

Alternatively, tickets for the film may be purchased through Cornerhouse Box Office 0161 200 1500 or online www.cornerhouse.org

6:30 Film screening
Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH

If You Are The One/Fei Cheng Wu Rao (CTBA)
Dir Feng Xiaogang/CN 2008/130 mins/Mandarin wEngST
Ge You, Shu Qi, Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Vivian Hsu, Fan Wei

Middle-aged multimillionaire inventor Qin decides to put an end to his bachelor life with online dating. Following some failed matches he eventually meets the heartbroken Smiley. They decide to take a trip to Hokkaido and soon find themselves falling for one another. A smart and entertaining romantic comedy from leading Chinese director Feng Xiaogang.

Sponsored by:
Chinese Arts Centre
Confucius Institute, University of Manchester
Research Institute of Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), University of Manchester
Sweet Mandarin Restaurant

Listen out for a programme on the artist Li Yuan-Chia on Radio 4, First broadcast on 22 Dec, 11:30am presented by our Chief Executive Sally Lai and now available through BBC iplayer.

In January 2009, Sarah Sanders spent 1month in Chongqing as part of the Breathe Chongqing residency at 501 Artspace.

In April 2009 Daniel was artist in residence at Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. Chinese Arts Centre will provide both artists the opportunity to use our project space simultaneously to present works completed during their residencies and to develop their enquiries further.

Both artists graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University and have remained working in the city. Daniel utilises disposable cameras, wooden mechanical structures, audio and video recording devices and paper to explore the subtleties in our everyday environments. Chance is often employed to avoid total conscious control of the product. Sarah attempts to capture the passing of time in drawing. Her sensitivity for the materials she uses informs her action and non-action in the process of the work.

The project space will be open to the public throughout December.

Speech is code
2 November – 31 December 2009

Experimental poet Philip Davenport’s residency at 501 Artspace in Chongqing, China features input from several Chinese artists, in a sequence of English/Chinese text art works, titled Speech is Code.

Davenport has made a sequence of 8-word poems, which collage together ancient Chinese poems, lines from iconic conceptual and text art sources and modernist and postmodern poetry, finding parallels in form and intent and knitting together new meanings completely unintended by the originators.

Davenport frequently moves between literary and visual modes, exhibiting works as in situ billposter/poems in cities throughout Europe, in galleries and as 3D objects. His 2006 Heartshape Pornography series was handwritten onto artificial apples; in 2008 he relabelled street debris; 1998-2008 his Imaginary Missing People, poems made from missing person notices, were billposted in Berlin, Edinburgh, Reykjavik, Paris, London, Bilbao.

The Speech is Code pieces are written onto large pieces of semi-transparent paper, one side scripted in English the other Chinese, they co-exist and intermingle calligraphies, significations, syntaxes.

Principal artists involved are: Wang Jun, Mao Yanyang, Xu Guang Fu and Deng Chuan.

Open studio

Daily Live Performances from 18 November – 24 November 2009 (excluding 22nd and 23rd)

During her residency at Chinese Arts Centre, Yingmei Duan has undertaken a performance and research project which investigates how art is experienced in the UK. The research has focussed upon the many facets of art education and Yingmei has conducted intensive research by attending art classes in schools and many workshops and educational projects. After her residency in Manchester she will take this project to Germany and China culminating in a live art event featuring a debate between arts educators, art professionals and the general public.
During her Open Studio Yingmei will be performing a series of collaborative Live Art events in Chinese Arts Centre:

18 November 2009 @ 2.30pm, Yingmei Duan and Lu Di
19 November 2009 @ 2pm, Yingmei Duan and Anthony Yates
20 November 2009 @ 2pm, Yingmei Duan and David Hancock
21 November 2009 @ 3pm, Yingmei Duan with 10 Art Students
24 November 2009 @ 2pm, Yingmei Duan with Ya-nung Huang and Branka Vidovic

Yingmei’s residency at Chinese Arts Centre is supported by Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony.

Daniel Staincliffe and Sarah Sanders

Project Space 1 – 23 December 2009

In January 2009, Sarah Sanders spent 1month in Chongqing as part of the Breathe Chongqing residency at 501 Artspace. In April 2009 Daniel was artist in residence at Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. Chinese Arts Centre will provide both artists the opportunity to use our project space simultaneously to present works completed during their residencies and to develop their enquiries further. Both artists graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University and have remained working in the city. Daniel utilises disposable cameras, wooden mechanical structures, audio and video recording devices and paper to explore the subtleties in our everyday environments. Chance is often employed to avoid total conscious control of the product. Sarah attempts to capture the passing of time in drawing. Her sensitivity for the materials she uses informs her action and non-action in the process of the work. A shift in her concerns towards the performance aspects in her work has caused her to question and explore live performance art.

The project space will be open to the public throughout December.

Christmas special offer

For the whole of December Chinese Arts Centre will be offering a 10% Christmas discount on all toys and mugs – an incentive to get those stockings filled!

Christmas closing

We are closed from Thursday 24 December 09 and reopen on Tuesday 5 January 10.

Yellow academy – Yellow Earth

Yellow Academy 2010 is an exciting new initiative between Yellow Earth (British East Asian* theatre company) and ALRA (the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts). Outreaching to four major cities in the UK they will be bringing together a group of enthusiastic and curious young people down to London for a free week of acting training in Summer 2010.

Taster Talk  2-4pm 20th February 2010, Chinese Arts Centre, Jasmine Suite
Directors of ALRA and Yellow Earth will be visiting CAC to talk about the project, outlining how to become a successful actor, from professional training to the realities of working in the industry.
Open to all British East Asians aged 16-30 curious or interested in actor training.
No previous experience necessary.
To sign up please send an email to info@alra.co.uk stating your name, age and contact details. To find out more visit www.yellowearth.org or phone 0208 870 6475

You can find us on facebook at ‘Yellow Academy’.

*British East Asian descent includes: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and their diasporas.

Writers Pathway

Are you a writer of Chinese descent looking to develop your skills?

The Writers’ Pathway is an exciting new initiative that supports emerging writers of Chinese descent through professional development. The University of Bolton, in collaboration with the Chinese Arts Centre, is offering 12 North West writers of poetry, drama or fiction the opportunity to develop their craft with professional supervision.

This 14 week programme will begin with a five day residential at the prestigious ARVON Foundation for Writers Lumb Bank Centre (www.arvonfoundation.org) and will culminate in a showcase of practitioners’ work at the Bolton Octagon Theatre. In the intervening weeks participants will develop a personal project through distance learning which they will complete with the help of a professional mentor.

For further information about the Writers’ Pathway initiative please visit www.bolton.ac.uk/writerspathway or email writerspathway@bolton.ac.uk.

Chinese Arts Centre recommends

22 December, 11.30 am

Listen out for a Radio 4 programme on the artist Li Yuan Chia produced by BBC producer Bob Dickinson and presented by our Chief Executive Sally Lai.

Visiting Us

If you would like to bring a group to the centre or any specific access needs please contact us at info@chinese-arts-centre.org so that we can help make the most of your visit.

And Finally

Please note that we are using e-invites for our previews so if you would like to receive notification of our previews please join our mailing list.
http://mailing.chinese-arts-centre.org/

During her residency at Chinese Arts Centre, Yingmei Duan has undertaken a performance and research project which investigates how art is experienced in the UK. The research has focussed upon the many facets of art education and Yingmei has conducted intensive research by attending art classes in schools and many workshops and educational projects. After her residency in Manchester she will take this project to Germany and China culminating in a live art event featuring a debate between arts educators, art professionals and the general public.

During her Open Studio Yingmei will be performing a series of collaborative Live Art events in Chinese Arts Centre : -

18 November 2009 @ 2.30pm, Yingmei Duan & Lu Di

19 November 2009 @ 2pm, Yingmei Duan & Anthony Yates

20 November 2009 @ 2pm, Yingmei Duan & TBC

21 November 2009 @ 3pm, Yingmei Duan with 10 Art Students

24 November 2009 @ 2pm, Yingmei Duan with Ya-nung Huang & Branka Vidovic

Yingmei’s residency at Chinese Arts Centre is supported by Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony

Lu Di’s current practice illustrates and amplifies problematic and insignificant events with the urban setting. Drawing attention to aspects of faulty objects or conflict, Lu Di uses either de-construction or re-construction as processing technique to refine objects, images and audio. The result usually appears obscure between the realistic and the serial.
For the First Step exhibition, Lu Di will construct an installation based on the three invisible triangles created within a musician’s body form while playing a Violin. Balancing between stability and flexibility, logic and passion, physical limitation and intellectual freedom, Lu Di’s installation will underline the mathematic elements that inhabit both musical performance and artistic practice.

Autumn Newsletter

Save the Date
Our next preview of One Degree of Separation will be on 8 October, from 17:30-20:00.

The exhibition looks at the role that social connections and artistic interconnections play in the practice of a group of artists from Hong Kong. To find out more click here.

Breathe Artist-in-residence
Live artist Yingmei Duan has started her residency at the centre now. During her residency she will be investigating how art is experienced in the UK. The research will focus on the many facets of art education. If you would like to take part in her research please contact us. To find out more click here.

Guanghwa Books Book Fair
On Saturday 19 September Guanghwa Books will be organising a book fair here at Chinese Arts Centre. Come along and stock up on language, fiction, travel, arts, and martial arts books as well as children’s films.

Chinese Arts Centre recommends
The Utopia Group’s project (He Hai and Deng Dafei) at Deveron Arts.

susan pui san lok’s Faster, Higher at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, as part of the Great North Run Cultural Programme.

Visible Secrets: Hong Kong’s Women Filmmakers at the Cornerhouse. This is the first UK film season of films made by Hong Kong women filmmakers with a focus on Ann Hui.

Visiting Us
If you would like to bring a group to the centre or any specific access needs please contact us so that we can help make the most of your visit.

And Finally
Look out for our new bi-lingual brochure which will be available from the end of September.

Between now and the end of September Chinese Arts Centre is doing a survey of our audience. If you are able to spare 5mins please complete this questionnaire, it would be really appreciated.

Please note that we are using e-invites for our previews so if you would like to receive notification of our previews please join our mailing list.